This is part of the open source PUMA microscope project. The CNC stage is still in the early development phase so you won't find it on the GitHub just yet.
Darn I’ve tried FreeCAD over several years and every time it was a waste of time. But suddenly now version one comes out and it’s beautiful!!
And stable!!!
I’m cancelling my Solidworks maker subscription.
With Solidworks, you sit around waiting forever for it to load, they update the software constantly so when you want to use it, it’s not ready to be used, and they put you in a stupid online system that is broken half the time and it has features that you can’t possibly understand as they designed it for people in aerospace engineering.
I have designed a window in Freecad that was designed off the center point of the sketch. It had 7 Grids wide and 7 Grids tall. I found out that this made the window too tall and reduced it to 5 Grids vertically. Trouble is now the sketch is not centered and the height dimension has been changed. If I try to center this using symmetry it skews messes up the dependent constraints that are located off the primary exterior shape. Is there a way to select all items in a sketch and have it recenter while keeping the dependent constraints locked relatively to the outside shape?
I tried the standard CAD procedure of one File one component in my latest project.
Then in the Assembly File, Every object is Linked in the tree view.
Know I wanted to share the project with my friends, but it says reference lost.
I know there is the one File multi Body approach, sharing is easy through this Methode.
Is there something like a Pack and go option, like in solidworks that saves the file in a way that a different computer can open the file without any problem ?
I'm still pretty new to freecad and am still learning how to do things. I am now adding some simple decorations to a project that I'm making (with the goal of 3d printing). For the current stage, I am putting a meteor and a couple stars on the side of a cylinder. I've basically got it via the curves work bench. The issue is that I'd like to have the meteor have have a an extruded core, then a gap, then extruded fire pattern.
With a regular sketch, this would be trivial. You have the sketch that looks like the below, then you select parts of it to pad (the part with the red xs is the part I don't want to pad):
However, apparently curve work bench sketches don't interact with the part work benches pad tool, and you have to pad them by setting properties of the sketch on surface? And when I do that, it doesn't do what I want, instead extruding the whole shape
(I'm not sure why it mirrored direction either, but I don't really care - I've already adjusted for that.) Any Ideas? I also tried removing the inner most circle, in the hopes that the pad thing would leave a hole, and I could just add a cylinder back in the middle with a separate sketch, but no luck.
EDIT: When carbon copying the sketch onto another portion of the cylinder without the inner circle in the sketch, the pad process did leave a hole - but only in the new places. The original location has the hole filled in. If I can figure that out (any ideas?), I'm currently going back to the plan of "leave a hole and fill it with another sketch on surface later" - but if anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it. Based on how long it takes for the project to update after I modify it, I have to guess that I'm not doing things in the freecad way.
I'm new to FreeCAD so sorry if this is a simple question (haven't made anything yet) but I couldn't find a good answer / make this work on my own yet.
Basically I'm trying to add threading to the inside of these holes but I can't even fill them (with "Pad"?) to use the "Hole" tool to add them in because I get "Cannot use selected object. Selected object must belong to the active body, Consider using a ShapeBinder or a BaseFeature to reference external geometry in a body." error.
Can anyone help me with this?
The models are available here in case you want to see them yourself:
